....... WOW. That last one... I just... do they realize that if it's supposed to be her own hands that they're backwards? But I guess if it's someone else groping the decapitated torso, that it would be right.Those first two are just...wrong. Have some tact people! I blame those who order these cakes just as much as the wreckorators.

I don't know that I agree that the last one is the worst, but it may well be. The Wreckarator didn't even bother to finish ICING THE HANDS. I guess she needed to wash her own hands of the thing (Or not, since there were business cards there).

That flotsom and jetsom? OMG! UGLY! disgusting. Are we sure that was professional? Worse, WHY does that person actually have a business in the first place?

Those white lips make the bride look as if she has a moustache! Do you think the pellets all over the Cinderalla cake are supposed to be pennies from heaven? But what the dickens is the story behind the hands-on-chest cake? Celebrating new implants, maybe?

Looks like the Princess Bride is about to bail from her carriage. I would love to see the look on the face of the first one to take a bite of that pre-chewed wreck of a cake, when they bite into one of those peppercorn pebbles scattered about!

At least most of the flotsam Nadia's cake looks edible. I can identify the strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries. Are there currants that small, or are those peppercorns?

Boy, these are some classy cakes! Is the second one . . . um . . . kneeling? And that last one, what is it even supposed to be? Is it a man's chest with a woman's hands on it? Or is it his back? Or maybe she's cupping her own chest in a suggestive way?

I just can't figure out what was going on in the mind of the decorator that last one... Is it two dis-embodied hands on her back... his back... her flat chest... and why?? and do I even want to know why???...

After reading the comments, I discovered I was wrong. The wording on cake #3 is NOT "sloppiness" like I thought.I'm just glad I don't get invited to many wedding showers any more if attendees are being penalized with cakes like this.

just FYI, it's a traditional Gypsy/traveler wedding. They marry young, drop out of school young etc etc and live in caravans (trailers) going place to place. Somehow they are in the majority stonking rich. I wish I knew how!

as anonymous said earlier, most UK weddings are a white dress and tuxes affair. Am enjoying the tacky wedding site though!

On top of the overall ugliness/what-were-they-thinking-ness, I find it very unappetizing that the horse drawing the carriage has hair and is being used as a cake topper. In addition to the flotsam, to have to pick hairs out of a piece of cake is just disgusting.

Flotsam cake: what IS all that crap, and why is it on the cake? Did someone drop their paper plate of fruit while standing near it? Last cake: Just Plain TACKY.What that even "professionally" done? - is that why the business cards were there? I wouldn't admit to making that horror. I would be hiding my face in a paper bag.

Isn't the source of all those little brown clusters of pellets on the "Cinderella" cake perfectly obvious? I mean, c'mon... He's standing right there in front of the pumpkin carriage, and let's face it: He make LOOK like a splendiferous, rainbow-maned horsie right now, but he DID start life as a mouse...

My theory on the last cake: the wreckerator was very proud of making a cake for the guy from Memento after he got engaged (the tattoo across his chest is so he'll remember, of course - although there is no 'of course' for the severed hands), and so she chose that cake to advertise her business. Who wouldn't want Memento guy's cake designer?

For the hand cake, I'm thinking that the hands were attached to the body, but the wreckorator noticed that he/she didn't have a big enough board for the whole thing, so came up with this great idea. That would explain the un-iced edges. Doesn't explain what happened to the rest of the arms, but maybe it's a person with really short arms!

I think you've got it all wrong about the wreckerator advertising alongside the disembodied-hands cake. A truly enterprising baker who produced that unidentifiable mess would put their competitor's cards there.

Also, to BADKarma!: Best comment so far. Started life as a mouse, indeed.

Did anybody else see that last cake as, well, kinda' sexual? I mean, I *think* it's supposed to look like the woman is grabbing the man's back while they're... "on their honeymoon," shall we say. *LOOK* at it. (Well, no closer than you already have, perhaps. That way lies madness...) But honestly that was the first thing I saw. That's why her hands are "backwards."WV: "calen" Boy, I find it hard to believe any of these bakers would think their skills are 'calen-te'..."

Cake #4 there aren't enough words to express the horror.. all I can think of is halloween came early and to celebrate surviving the zombie attack the baker made this.. well at least they left cards so people know who to blame.. lol

Who wants a butt for their bridal shower??? That second ones basic shape made me think of a waving barbapapa. http://www.zwatla.com/emoticones/barbapapa/13.gif

Weebles may not fall down, but apparently their bums make thongs vanish.

I like Cinderella in her chariot, I can almost hear the whip cracking as she pulls a Ben-hur on the way to the ball, forcing her evil stepmother's carriage off the road, yeehah!!!

The last one, hacked up body parts?? #4 would do better with discoloured skin, fake blood & sold as a zombie parts cake for Hallowe'en, it'd be less disturbing that way. What do you celebrate with that? Congratulations on your farm equipment accident, happy amputee-ism?

I love this blog it gives me the giggles & I can always count on it to get my imagination fired up. Thank you so much for the link to the Tacky Wedding's blog, this is going to be fun.

OK- the third one almost made me puke- what in the Sam hill are they thinking with the pastel green air brush mess and all that fruit? I guess? Is that fruit???? My daughter has that princess toy and I can tell you that in all actuality- the fake hair from the mane was probably on the cake too. It is really long.....

Then I saw the 4th picture- and GOOD GRIEF! What in the?!?!? Whew-- I need a break now....

*Extremely put off* Good lord, the Tacky Weddings link is just appalling. The post itself isn't too bad, but the comments are an interminable screed of racial hatred. This post would have been a great deal more enjoyable without the link.

I wonder if anyone can zoom in on the business card next to the dead-dismembered cake and get the actual information so we can call and ask what fun kind of drugs someone was on when they not only made, but presented that monstrosity.

Actually, even tho' this is slightly off-topic, I think you'll actually "want (please note the quote marks)" to see that there's a n EVEN WORSE DRESS than that one (it's the first on the page, you can't miss it - try as you might):

Okay, so I clicked on the link, and oh jeez...that family was crazy. "Whoa there, mama. Whoa...whoa there..." I was thinking this the whole time. I feel so bad for the girl's father (and the groom's mom, I guess...surrounded by half-naked, "lovingly welcomed" new family members and all). Wow. Just wow.

the last cake, if I was asked to make an order like that first of all i'd think twice and beg them to choose another design. second if they insisted, i would not be leaving my card.Really! oh and the Cinderella one, was it all the left over fruit from the fruit tray or did the host give decorating rights to her crying 4 year old daughter? so much wrong!

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